Nice to have as a supplement, to coal, water, nuclear, but, wind/solar is just an ADDED resource, not a REPLACEMENT
resource.
You have to have some place to STORE the energy created by wind/solar, which is a finite amount of energy.
If there is a PEAK demand, and you don't have the SUPPLY capacity, then you have to cut back.
With coal/nuclear, you can spin up the generators, to GENERATE more energy on demand.
I don't have a problem with wind/solar, but, they cannot be a REPLACEMENT for coal/nuclear.
Bunch of BS, fake news.
If the Russians helped ANYONE it was the DNC & Hillary, not Republicans & Trump.
But, go ahead and claim the election was stolen if it makes you happy (or in this case keeps you angry).
Surprised the U.N. hasn't mandated every nation do this, and send the funds to them, to be re-distributed (while the higher up's keep 99% for themselves of course, as "administration fees")
A properly constructed 835 chip, 4-6 gig of ram, 64 or 128 gig of storage, OLED, 10-12mp camera with OIS is
good enough for probably 99% of users. Take off the stupid flashy color garbage along with the glass backs,
stick a 4,000mAH battery inside, price it for less than $400 and clean up.
Grew up in the 60's through 80's era of music. Once tek-no-pop and (c)rap came along,
it all turned to crap.
I already have either my LP albums, or MP3's of everything I want to listen to, plus we have
a 24/7 NO ADS blues/jazz station that is in our area that also streams, so I don't even bother
listening to the "radio" anymore for music.
Get rich quick. Most of the ones that got in early, cashed out won this one,
but the suckers who invested within the rise/fall/boom are the ones that lost out.
It's just a way of stealing money from rich countries, giving it to the UN to be redistributed elsewhere, all the while
the UN "officials" pocket most of the money.
What causes the Earth to heat & cool? Take a look 93 million miles away from Earth during the day.
The SUN depending on it's solar cycle.
It's not MY fault that you have a worthless college liberal arts degree, that pays 50k, and, you think living in (insert name
of trendy hip city) would be cool until you find out it costs you 100,000.00 per year to live there. THAT'S your fault.
Life isn't easy, and it's even easier the quicker you figure that out.
Perhaps you'll have to live in (for you shudder) a non hip trendy place that doesn't even have a starbucks for a few years
until you get on your feet.
Guess what! Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you have to climb the ladder of success.
But, I'm sure if you Generation M types cry about it long enough, the mommy/daddy federal government will come
along, pat you on the head, say there there now, don't you worry about it. We'll forgive those loans and put them on
the back of the rest of America. You go and have a good time at starbucks & the trendy night spots.
Let's see...you can make threats all you want about Trump, conservatives, republicans, Christians, traditional
values, and no one bats an eye on social media.
But, say one thing about liberals, homosexuals, blacks, illegal aliens and you get banned.
That sound about right?
Freedom...ain't it great?
Granted, Fakebook, twitter et al, are technically a private business, and they can have a TOS as they see fit,
but they better watch out banning this or that, or the long arm of the federal government will come down on them
and destroy their profitable business. Because, we all know when government gets involved, it turns into a cluster f*ck!
Personally, I do away with ANY electronic ballot. Yeah, paper ones are a PITA, but, can't really be hacked unless
someone dumps a ton of them into an election polling place. Also, the purple ink you see some 3rd world countries
would be a good idea as well, and if "the fashionable" types wouldn't like that, go with a slightly invisible ink.
Only white man, would cut bottom of blanket, sew on top and think they have longer blanket.
GET RID OF IT and leave the $#(%*^ clocks alone. But but but kids would go to school in the
dark and come home in the dark bla bla bla. Give them a flashlight.
People in Barrow Alaska have 24 hours of dark a month or two a year, and 24 hours of light
a couple months a year. Don't see them complaining.
Then tell them to KISS MY *SS!
They can't dictate how another business is run, unless they have stock/ownership in another company.
I bet there will be some lawsuits. "oh, but you don't have to do business" with them. Yeah, MS blackmailing
another company to achieve Mr. Bill's idea of a socialist utopia.
Ever notice it's the WEALTHY that think socialism would be good?
Hey Bill & Company...STUFF IT!
I guess most of these so called "liberal paradise" spots, such as Seattle, San Fran, LA, NYC have the LONGEST
commute times. What's wrong? Don't like living in your utopia? So you flee the high taxes, high housing costs,
high crime to the suburbs, but then have to spend an HOUR or more to get to work?
Out here in flyover country, we have peace and quiet IN the city, takes 10-20 minutes to get to work, low crime, low
housing cost, and low crime.
Oh, by the way, stop moving here! You are bringing your stupid ideas, that screwed up your own part of the country
with you and we don't like it.
Don't like God/Church, guns, country music, pickup trucks, etc? Stay out!
Wind does not always blow, and I know it is California, and the song says it never rains in California, but sometimes
the sun does not shine, like at NIGHT.
The problem, even with ramping up storage capacity, is that if the demand, outstrips what people "normally" use,
they can't just make the sun shine longer, or the wind to blow harder.
With coal, gas, nuclear, hydro power, you can "gen up" to put more power into the grid, when capacity, goes beyond
what is available.
Here is what may happen to California users. Say it's an unusually hot period of weather, or lots of rain with little wind.
The battery storage goes down and the demand for electricity goes up. The utilities of California will have to purchase
power from some other location to meet the demand. The cost associated with that, will be passed onto consumers
with HIGHER bills.
You can hope "clean" all you want, but unless you have storage capacity the size of texas, don't count on it. Placing
all your eggs in one basket, could hurt California.
Maybe they are going the Apple route. Hoping a closed off, walled off ecosystem is the best way.
Sorry, I've had 3 of their phones. Excellent phones, great battery life. I've never felt the "need" to
root any of their phones, but, I had the OPTION. Them taking away the OPTION is not good.
Their biggest issue with me is lack of patch updates. I'm not so much concerned about which version
of Android is on my device, but I would like to have the monthly security updates. With Huawei, even
those can get bogged down unless you live in the Asia area.
Now that the USA has pretty much kicked them out, I've moved on to the Essential PH-1 for now, given
how dirt cheap it was. Great little phone, got Android 9 the minute I powered it up.
Build and they will come, but leave your stupid phone at home. YEAH RIGHT. People would rather leave their kids/dogs/relatives in a car, than be without their phones for a few seconds.
Personally, I'd rather have my good d-SLR, than a silly phone to take photos.
Plus, they build this out in the middle of nowhere, to escape the RFI from towns, and now they are building up the area, and it will screw up the radio receiver. Good thinking!
Look at the photo. Did they even have it anchored in the ground? Looks like a couple feet of concrete was all.
I was expecting to see steel rods or something.
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It's run by governments, be they local, state or federal. Amtrak is a mess, bus lines in cities are a joke.
Been on straight talk, for 5-6 years. FLAT 50 bucks a month, 10GB, unlimited everything else. No this tax, that fee...FLAT rate, perfect!
After "ma-bell" was broken up in the 80's? Perhaps it is time to break up google, facebook, twitter etc?
Nice to have as a supplement, to coal, water, nuclear, but, wind/solar is just an ADDED resource, not a REPLACEMENT resource. You have to have some place to STORE the energy created by wind/solar, which is a finite amount of energy. If there is a PEAK demand, and you don't have the SUPPLY capacity, then you have to cut back. With coal/nuclear, you can spin up the generators, to GENERATE more energy on demand. I don't have a problem with wind/solar, but, they cannot be a REPLACEMENT for coal/nuclear.
Bunch of BS, fake news. If the Russians helped ANYONE it was the DNC & Hillary, not Republicans & Trump. But, go ahead and claim the election was stolen if it makes you happy (or in this case keeps you angry).
Surprised the U.N. hasn't mandated every nation do this, and send the funds to them, to be re-distributed (while the higher up's keep 99% for themselves of course, as "administration fees")
A properly constructed 835 chip, 4-6 gig of ram, 64 or 128 gig of storage, OLED, 10-12mp camera with OIS is good enough for probably 99% of users. Take off the stupid flashy color garbage along with the glass backs, stick a 4,000mAH battery inside, price it for less than $400 and clean up.
Grew up in the 60's through 80's era of music. Once tek-no-pop and (c)rap came along, it all turned to crap. I already have either my LP albums, or MP3's of everything I want to listen to, plus we have a 24/7 NO ADS blues/jazz station that is in our area that also streams, so I don't even bother listening to the "radio" anymore for music.
Get rich quick. Most of the ones that got in early, cashed out won this one, but the suckers who invested within the rise/fall/boom are the ones that lost out.
It's just a way of stealing money from rich countries, giving it to the UN to be redistributed elsewhere, all the while the UN "officials" pocket most of the money. What causes the Earth to heat & cool? Take a look 93 million miles away from Earth during the day. The SUN depending on it's solar cycle.
And he won't have to worry about dying LOL.
It's not MY fault that you have a worthless college liberal arts degree, that pays 50k, and, you think living in (insert name of trendy hip city) would be cool until you find out it costs you 100,000.00 per year to live there. THAT'S your fault. Life isn't easy, and it's even easier the quicker you figure that out. Perhaps you'll have to live in (for you shudder) a non hip trendy place that doesn't even have a starbucks for a few years until you get on your feet. Guess what! Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, you have to climb the ladder of success. But, I'm sure if you Generation M types cry about it long enough, the mommy/daddy federal government will come along, pat you on the head, say there there now, don't you worry about it. We'll forgive those loans and put them on the back of the rest of America. You go and have a good time at starbucks & the trendy night spots.
Let's see...you can make threats all you want about Trump, conservatives, republicans, Christians, traditional values, and no one bats an eye on social media. But, say one thing about liberals, homosexuals, blacks, illegal aliens and you get banned. That sound about right? Freedom...ain't it great? Granted, Fakebook, twitter et al, are technically a private business, and they can have a TOS as they see fit, but they better watch out banning this or that, or the long arm of the federal government will come down on them and destroy their profitable business. Because, we all know when government gets involved, it turns into a cluster f*ck!
Personally, I do away with ANY electronic ballot. Yeah, paper ones are a PITA, but, can't really be hacked unless someone dumps a ton of them into an election polling place. Also, the purple ink you see some 3rd world countries would be a good idea as well, and if "the fashionable" types wouldn't like that, go with a slightly invisible ink.
More rectangular slabs of glass, metal & plastic that are WAY overpriced.
In a few years, there might be a shortage of history, philosophy, English literature, and religion majors LMAO, said no one ever!
Only white man, would cut bottom of blanket, sew on top and think they have longer blanket. GET RID OF IT and leave the $#(%*^ clocks alone. But but but kids would go to school in the dark and come home in the dark bla bla bla. Give them a flashlight. People in Barrow Alaska have 24 hours of dark a month or two a year, and 24 hours of light a couple months a year. Don't see them complaining.
from a few years back!
Then tell them to KISS MY *SS! They can't dictate how another business is run, unless they have stock/ownership in another company. I bet there will be some lawsuits. "oh, but you don't have to do business" with them. Yeah, MS blackmailing another company to achieve Mr. Bill's idea of a socialist utopia. Ever notice it's the WEALTHY that think socialism would be good? Hey Bill & Company...STUFF IT!
I guess most of these so called "liberal paradise" spots, such as Seattle, San Fran, LA, NYC have the LONGEST commute times. What's wrong? Don't like living in your utopia? So you flee the high taxes, high housing costs, high crime to the suburbs, but then have to spend an HOUR or more to get to work? Out here in flyover country, we have peace and quiet IN the city, takes 10-20 minutes to get to work, low crime, low housing cost, and low crime. Oh, by the way, stop moving here! You are bringing your stupid ideas, that screwed up your own part of the country with you and we don't like it. Don't like God/Church, guns, country music, pickup trucks, etc? Stay out!
Wind does not always blow, and I know it is California, and the song says it never rains in California, but sometimes the sun does not shine, like at NIGHT. The problem, even with ramping up storage capacity, is that if the demand, outstrips what people "normally" use, they can't just make the sun shine longer, or the wind to blow harder. With coal, gas, nuclear, hydro power, you can "gen up" to put more power into the grid, when capacity, goes beyond what is available. Here is what may happen to California users. Say it's an unusually hot period of weather, or lots of rain with little wind. The battery storage goes down and the demand for electricity goes up. The utilities of California will have to purchase power from some other location to meet the demand. The cost associated with that, will be passed onto consumers with HIGHER bills. You can hope "clean" all you want, but unless you have storage capacity the size of texas, don't count on it. Placing all your eggs in one basket, could hurt California.
I switched from AT&T, to Straight Talk about 4-5 years ago and haven't looked back! I still use the at&t towers ;)
Maybe they are going the Apple route. Hoping a closed off, walled off ecosystem is the best way. Sorry, I've had 3 of their phones. Excellent phones, great battery life. I've never felt the "need" to root any of their phones, but, I had the OPTION. Them taking away the OPTION is not good. Their biggest issue with me is lack of patch updates. I'm not so much concerned about which version of Android is on my device, but I would like to have the monthly security updates. With Huawei, even those can get bogged down unless you live in the Asia area. Now that the USA has pretty much kicked them out, I've moved on to the Essential PH-1 for now, given how dirt cheap it was. Great little phone, got Android 9 the minute I powered it up.
Build and they will come, but leave your stupid phone at home. YEAH RIGHT. People would rather leave their kids/dogs/relatives in a car, than be without their phones for a few seconds. Personally, I'd rather have my good d-SLR, than a silly phone to take photos. Plus, they build this out in the middle of nowhere, to escape the RFI from towns, and now they are building up the area, and it will screw up the radio receiver. Good thinking!
Look at the photo. Did they even have it anchored in the ground? Looks like a couple feet of concrete was all. I was expecting to see steel rods or something.